Re: porting Obj-C to Java: objc_get_class

[Nelson Minar]

>Greetings all. I'm porting some code to java (and loving it). In my Obj-C
>code, I used to have the following:
>Class mClass;
>mClass = objc_get_class(attributeValue);
>mMonitor = [mClass create: [self getZone]];
>where attributeValue is declared char[MAXLINE] and mMonitor is declared id.

Try

  Class mClass = Class.forName(attributeValue);
  mMonitor = mClass.newInstance();

this works if your class doesn't need any arguments to the
constructor. If that's not good enough, see the docs for the
java.lang.reflect package.

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